Kopia: Backups Without Noise, Lock-in, or Fuss Sometimes a tool just feels… solid. Not overengineered, not half-baked — just something that quietly works and doesn’t ask for much. That’s pretty much the vibe with Kopia.

It doesn’t come with flashy dashboards or marketing buzz. What it does offer is fast, encrypted, deduplicated backups — to local drives, SFTP, object storage, whatever. One binary. Cross-platform. No root. No agents. Just backups that behave.

You point it at a folder, it figu

Vorta + Borg: Bulletproof Backups With a Human Face Sometimes a tool does one thing really well — but the interface leaves people cold. Other times, the UI is great, but the engine underneath is shaky. The combo of BorgBackup and Vorta nails both: Borg brings power and security, and Vorta makes it usable for real humans.

On their own, they’re each useful. Together? They turn encrypted, deduplicated, versioned backups into a workflow that anyone — from Linux pros to casual laptop users — can tru

UrBackup: Image and File Backups That Just Quietly Work Backups don’t need to be complicated. They need to happen — regularly, silently, and in a way that makes recovery feel boring instead of terrifying. That’s where UrBackup comes in.

It’s not trying to reinvent the wheel. It’s just a backup system that actually backs things up. Files, full disk images, Windows and Linux machines, over the LAN or the internet — all from a central interface. No cloud lock-in, no mystery daemons.

What sets it

Restic: Fast, Encrypted Backups Without the Baggage Backups often start simple… until they don’t. A few scripts here, a cron job there — and suddenly there’s no encryption, no deduplication, and recovery feels like guesswork. Restic was built to fix exactly that — without adding a bunch of complexity in the process.

It’s a command-line backup tool, written in Go, designed to be fast, safe, and forgettable (in the best way). It encrypts by default, deduplicates out of the box, and runs anywhere